:) Give the man a bookworld.Then maybe we will be beating somebody in topics and replies besides Hardwareworld. :P
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:) Give the man a bookworld.Then maybe we will be beating somebody in topics and replies besides Hardwareworld. :P
Wee, I've got the Musicworld Crusader on my side now. :D
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I am for it too. (La la land's behind you too! :D )Quote:
Originally posted by MagicNakor@17 April 2003 - 05:57
Wee, I've got the Musicworld Crusader on my side now. :D
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Heres something for you:Quote:
Originally posted by MusicWorld@17 April 2003 - 03:59
:) Give the man a bookworld.Then maybe we will be beating somebody in topics and replies besides Hardwareworld. :P
http://www.mansun-nl.com/smilies/musicband.gif
Still lobbying, it's hard though... :(Quote:
Originally posted by MagicNakor@15 April 2003 - 10:31
Is that like "go go gadget?"
Hehe, must be some long mod-team chat going on. I think Bender first said he'd post a topic three weeks ago or so.
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books are the work of the devil and a bookworld would be too for it is trough books that his true form will come to be known
http://www.darksidedisplays.com/images/Links/demon.jpg
Are you Yoda master x? or just someone else?Quote:
Originally posted by "The Avatar Man"@17 April 2003 - 07:01
books are the work of the devil and a bookworld would be too for it is trough books that his true form will come to be known
Ah, come on, this post's at 4 pages already. ;) Let's have a poll!!!
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come on give us a bookworld!
BOOKWORLD!
Its true, I just d/l Anton La Vey's "Satanic Bible"!!! :devil: :devil: :devil: :devil: :santa: (St Nick was a nasty bugger as well!!!)Quote:
Originally posted by "The Avatar Man"@17 April 2003 - 14:01
books are the work of the devil and a bookworld would be too for it is trough books that his true form will come to be known
Anyways:
BOOKWORLD! Please
i dont know, theres always someone who has to go one better, isnt there JimF :P :D .
Also thats plagerism, stealing my pic like that for your advantage. ;) :P j/k
Who, me ....
I cant even spell plagiarism mate.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steven....rs/Matrix5.gif
Who put that there
and i never done this
http://image.uploader.net/uploaded/CD19L26.jpg
OMG...Now it all makes sense.Quote:
Originally posted by MagicNakor@6 April 2003 - 12:28
The book is engrained into our society, so much so that I bet most of the people on this board know that the answer to the meaning of life is 42.
I've had this question floating around in my head for years now. 42 explains everything.
The mysteries of the universe have just been unfolded.
I ALONE KNOW THE MEANING TO THE ULTIMATE QUESTION OF LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND ANYTHING ELSE YOU CAN THROW IN.
Ooops...Damn...I just forgot what the question was.
Oh well...It'll come to me...Give me a sec.
Its true...Its true...I am the devil and it's my job to read books.Quote:
Originally posted by "The Avatar Man"@17 April 2003 - 09:01
books are the work of the devil
Can you ever forgive me?
I promise I'll never to it again.
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Here is a copy of a message I just sent to Jetje:
Dude...I noticed a request for more info early in the Bookworld topic of the Lounge forum, by you, but I haven't seen any sign of you there since then.
Agreed that most of it is the same question over and over...Why can't we have a bookworld...but answers to your question are also there.
The main reason we want a bookworld though is because when the war is gone, and Ongoing US/Coalition forums die, there will be no place for the intellectual community on here to enjoy.
Once again we will be thrown into the mix with those who ,by their verbal skills, may not even know what a book is.
If you do a search for 'audio books', 'ebooks' or just 'book', you'll find a decent beginning to build from.
Yes...They are occasionally available in other language. There are even books to teach other languages on Kazaalight.
The existance of a full forum set to support them, would increase their number and range of language.
How can that be a bad idea?
Peace
What is a "book" ???
Way back in ancient times, people wrote things down on this mysterious substance called "paper." They used "ink" to do this, and then bound the ink-marked-paper, known as "pages," together. The result was something called a "book." You may have one lying around, collecting dust, or being used as a paperweight.
;)
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ok what is this book world and why do we need it
you already have a link to your forum in your sig if you are here posting just to show links to your forum we consider that as spamming.... <_< So don't do that again
Books o ya those things with words, and paper and words that we have to
do with them hmmmm.. Oh ya its called "reading" and we do this activity
in some place where you learn starts with a "s" You have to learn *shivers*
Read the thread. <_<Quote:
Originally posted by kcn@20 April 2003 - 09:29
ok what is this book world and why do we need it
just made a trip to disney... didn't edit your topic magic, and delete the link to a forum
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Its this new technology they've been kicking around down at Nasa.Quote:
Originally posted by Keikan@20 April 2003 - 02:36
What is a "book" ???
The idea, is to feed information directly into the brain through a revolutionary method I like to call, 'Visual Osmosis'.
The technology has existed in crude form for centuries.
Nasa's new twist on it would be to send an infinite number of monkeys into space with an infinite number of word processors. Then, a series of plasma field satelites will begin transmitting the random information from the monkeys, over a carefully placed grid which will then print them on the plasma field so we on earth can see them clearly.
There is this theory that if we wait long enough, one of the monkeys will type out 'War and Peace'.
Of course, the last three attempts had to be aborted. (One of the monkeys on each mission, pee'd on the central computer, frying all of its components).
But we'll keep trodding on. Eventually it has to work...Right.
And even if it doesn't, you will have no idea what I am talking about if you never read a book.
So I'm safe on this. :)
Peace
I thought it was Hamlet, not War and Peace. ;)
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:lol: Your link dosent work because you dont have a 'd' in 'index'. :lol: Also, you dont even have to have 'index' the browser looks for a file name of 'index' when you go somewere like www.microsoft.com.Quote:
Originally posted by kcn@20 April 2003 - 01:29
ok what is this book world and why do we need it
please visit my forum
It would need to look like this: http://tzone.to-j.com/index.php or http://tzone.to-j.com/. Hope that helps! :)
Vote for the Bookworld. :)
It doesn't matter now anyway.Quote:
Originally posted by MagicNakor@20 April 2003 - 06:39
I thought it was Hamlet, not War and Peace. ;)
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They've scraped the whole idea.
I didn't know, but they tried sending a fourth mission up last night.
All of the male monkeys started having sex with the keyboards.
It was horrible.
All the keys stuck together and all any of them could type was hgjhgjhgjhgj over and over again.
Turns out, its not as simple an idea as it sounded.
And do you have any idea how hard it is to find an infinite number of monkeys?
Peace
Infinitely impossible? ;)
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Here is Jetje's reply to my message:
I read almost every topic posted on the forum. So i track that topic 2. The mods and admins have debates on this right now. I asked my question there cause my opinion is that one or two big threads can cover all audiobooks. I would like to see i'm wrong. IMO there still is no need for a sepereate world there. If we do that we get the anime people asking their own world And who knows what will follow..??
Start one thread in one of the worlds and post hashes in there could be sufficient. Prove me wrong there!?
But i'm not the only decission maker, again that's why i asked my questions. I am not against a bookworld, i'm against having to many specific/small sections. I think it will do no good to the board.
Btw i'm a reader, read 2 -3 books every month. can read/write in 4 different languages.
But we have a big debate on this in the mod room... Answers to that soon to follow my guess.
And here is my reply back to him:
Thanks for the reply.
I understand your delema. If you do it for us, you have to do it for everyone.
I don't necessarily agree with that though.
Movieworld covers video formats.
Musicworld covers audio formats.
Softwareworld covers...well..software including games, buisiness and graphic software, etc.
Gameworld wasn't really necessary except that I'm sure the softwareworld forums were probably excessive so a gameworld was added. (I'm guessing here).
Hardwareworld. Not really sure why that one is here since you cannot download hardware. Firmware revisions maybe?
But there is no forum set for Books. And books, and book discussion do not really fit into any of the other forums.
To limit it to a hash thread would be unfair since other forum sets are not limited like that.
I hope these arguments help.
Peace
I can't see how anime factors into it. It comes in two formats, really.
Movies/television shows.
Comic books.
One of those is already represented. Hopefully, the other will be soon. I already explained my point of view about the thread-hash-world thing earlier in this topic.
[Note: Sarcasm below.]
I'd argue that Gameworld is just a subset of Softwareworld. Why don't we merge the two? And I'd argue that Hardwareworld has less to do with P2P file-swapping than Bookworld ever would. Why don't we just obliterate it? There are plenty of places to get hardware help. <_<
[Note: Sarcasm above.]
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I pretty much said all that. Without the sarcasm of course.Quote:
Originally posted by MagicNakor@20 April 2003 - 19:54
I can't see how anime factors into it. It comes in two formats, really.
Movies/television shows.
Comic books.
One of those is already represented. Hopefully, the other will be soon. I already explained my point of view about the thread-hash-world thing earlier in this topic.
[Note: Sarcasm below.]
I'd argue that Gameworld is just a subset of Softwareworld. Why don't we merge the two? And I'd argue that Hardwareworld has less to do with P2P file-swapping than Bookworld ever would. Why don't we just obliterate it? There are plenty of places to get hardware help. <_<
[Note: Sarcasm above.]
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I haven't heard any reply to my last message to Jetje.
I hope thats a good thing. I failed though, to point out there there are more formats than just audio for books, also text. I had pointed that out I thought in the original post.
Surely he has seriously studdied the issue.
Do you suppose its possible he is thinking only of audio books?
I have the Adobe PDF and the DOC versions of Plato's Republic.
My son had me download the entire Harry Potter series in PDF format.
He has the hardcover books, but he thought it would be cool to carry all the books with him on the laptop.
You can get the whole list of Government Auctions on here. Thats a big book with tons of info.
But no place to really talk about it. If you post that info in the lounge, it will just get lost on the 3rd page.
Oh well. I hope the Mods can come to an acceptable agreement.
The Ongoing Coalition forum has been the main reason I keep wasting my time on here. When its gone, there will really be nothing left worth commenting on.
Peace
He may be thinking only of audio books. I don't know, though.
Most of my books are in .PDF format. I've got a few .RTF, though.
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imo opinion a book still needs to smell and feel paper...
I always buy the books that i read fresh and new... have a lot of them now...
Still can't imagine the pleasure of e-books... ;)
well i admit i have to try that once then... :)
There are alot of rare books online and out of print books.Quote:
Originally posted by jetje @ 22 April 2003 - 05:41
imo opinion a book still needs to smell and feel paper...
I always buy the books that i read fresh and new... have a lot of them now...
Still can't imagine the pleasure of e-books...
well i admit i have to try that once then...
One of the greatest advantages of having a book on your computer, is the ability to search through it for a certain passage, word, phrase.
For example, if you have the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and you're trying to remember what that ravenous beast was that you had to put a towel on your head to escape from, you can search for the word 'towel' and find it easily.
If you have a copy of any bible, technical manual, how-to book, what-have-you, on your computer, you can look up specific information in seconds that you may never be able to find otherwise, even with an index.
Plus the fact that you can carry an entire library of books on one CD.
E-Books can't be beat dude. :)
Peace
What do you use to view rich text format?Quote:
Originally posted by MagicNakor@22 April 2003 - 04:40
He may be thinking only of audio books. I don't know, though.
Most of my books are in .PDF format. I've got a few .RTF, though.
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I'm guessing thats relatively new? I have only started seeing them recently.
Not new at all. ;) Any word processor (barring Notepad) will open it. :D
Edit: Well, Notepad'll open it, you just lose the formatting.
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I'll have to download an RTF file.Quote:
Originally posted by MagicNakor@22 April 2003 - 18:47
Not new at all. ;) Any word processor (barring Notepad) will open it. :D
Edit: Well, Notepad'll open it, you just lose the formatting.
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One thing I love about PDF is that it looks like you're reading book pages.
I even have a copy of one book somewhere that has a few letters that look like they did not fully type.
How does it do that?
Do some PDF files use scanned pages? I can still search for specific words. I know the book graphics look just like they do in the book.
Very interesting.
I'll need to check into that.
I had a friend once, argueing that you could not fit an entire book on one floppy disk.
(he had never seen an etext)
He was thinking bits and bytes.
8 bits to a byte.
1 byte per character.
50 characters per line average.
25 lines per page average.
300 pages for an average book.
Thats 405Kb
Thats without compression.
With compression you can fit 4, 5, even more books on a single floppy.
A person who moves around alot doesn't really have room for every book they would like.
A single CD can hold 700mb of info.
If you figure an ample 1mb average file size, thats 700 books.
On one CD.
Hell...The complete works of Shakespeare, every play poem, everything in print from him, only uses 5mb.
A large portion of books are less than 300Kb.
All four Harry Potter books are around 4.5mb total. (big books)
Necronomicon---100Kb
The Apocrypha---844Kb
Koran---1.2mb
King James Bible---5mb
Plato's Republic---400Kb
US Army Survival Handbook---32mb. (I'm downloading it right now. Gotta know why its bigger than shakespeare. Must be alot of graphics)
Ranger's Handbook---415Kb
The Simarillion---847Kb
Chronicles of Narnia---3.5mb (7 books and including maps)
Dickens A Christmas carol---400Kb
Prodigal Genius---600Kb (Bio of Nikola Tesla)
Hydroponic Gardening---6Kb
Indoor Gardening---27Kb
FBI Top Secret UFO Files---763Kb
Brief History of Wicca---331Kb
US Declaration of Independance---77Kb
This is a VERY small portion of what is available on here.
Many of these books cannot be had by walking into your local library or bookstore.
Some communities outright ban some of these.
So much for Freedom of the Press.
Wasn't it Utah that had the book burning back a few years ago?
I've found books in library sales that were great literary works or good period info, that had not been in print for well over a hundred years.
Some libraries have local one of a kind books that were area specific.
Then someone with a hitleresque attitude decides that books are evil.
Imagine what is lost to the ravages of time or mans lack of good sense.
We need a book world.
Peace